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Exhibition Review: Power & Taboo – Sacred Objects from the Pacific at the British Museum
Why might these societies, living in what we might think of as an idyllic world, have chosen to create such fearsome deities?
Read More »Friday The Thirteenth: Why So Unlucky?
Superstition is the stuff of ignorance and fear which gives rise to hatred and intolerance.
Read More »Book Review: The Jesus Dynasty by James D. Tabor
A well-reasoned and credible, although not always convincing, view of "the historical Jesus" and the origins and development of Christianity.
Read More »Communication: Listen And Learn
We are scared and react emotionally to that which we don't understand.
Read More »Reflections on The End of Faith by Sam Harris
If you met a person of the 14th century, you'd find they were astonishingly ignorant and astonishingly wrongheaded. Yet religion hasn't changed since then.
Read More »Placating Terrorists
Stop allowing the enemy to define the terms and thus dictate the rules of engagement.
Read More »Know Thy Neighbour… Don’t Kill Them
It is far easier to try to kill someone than to get to know them.
Read More »Exhibition Review: Myths of Bengal at the British Museum
At its centre - physically and intellectually - is Durga, the supremely powerful goddess.
Read More »Examining 9/11: Truth, Lies, Or Conspiracy?
Assessing two books that take opposite views of whether the truth has been told about what happened on 9/11.
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